At 04:14 PM 2/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
I just wanted to correct some spelling in the following list, so folks
won't get lost looking for non-existent taxa.
>There are many bioluminescent polychaetes which I won't attempt to list.
>Among the oligochaetes there are only two families with luminescent
>genera, the Lumbricidae with Eisenia as the only known BL genus and the
>Megascolecidae which includes Digaster, Diplocardia, Diplotrema,
>Eutyphoeus, Fletcherodrilus, Lampito, Megascolex, Microscolex
>(=Eodrillus ******* EODRILUS*****), Octochaetus, Parachilota, Ponodrilus
(*****PONTODRILUS ****), Ramiella and
>Spenceriella.
Pontodrilus is found in marine beaches above the high water mark, usually
quiet areas (i.e. not on beaches with heavy surf) in/under accumulations of
organic debris, warm temperate to tropical, global. The other species are
all from "normal" terrestrial soils. Microscolex has a bit of a complicated
nomenclatural history, as does "Eodrilus" so be careful in calling anything
Eodrilus.
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~ Dept. of Biology ~
~ Maharishi Univ. of Mgmt. ~
~ Fairfield, IA 52557 ~
~ sjames at mum.edu ~
~ 515-472-1146 ~
~ Systematics and Ecology ~
~ of Earthworms ~
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